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Pandemic, protests & fire December 30 2020
The Madras Pioneer looks back at the top five regional news stories of the year 2020
COVID-19. The pandemic. It defined much of life in Jefferson County and the entire planet in 2020. And it s not over. As we race to get vaccines in arms, we brace for what are expected to be numbing infection and death rates in the early months of 2021.
COVID and its economic and societal impacts touched everyone in 2020, and played a role in nearly all aspects of life. But the year also brought a once-a-century-type windstorm to the county in May and saw one of the largest wildfires in Oregon history spark in August on the Warm Springs Reservation.